Újabb irányok a kétszintű konceptuális szemantikában a főnévi poliszémia szempontjából
This paper gives a summaryofthe changes and development that took place in the last 20 years concerning the theory of two-level semantics (cf. Bierwisch 1983). Two-level semantics is a modulárist cognitive semantic theory. Its main idea is that the semantic representations of words are radically und...
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| Format: | Article |
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2005
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| Series: | Nyelvtudomány
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| Kulcsszavak: | Kognitív nyelvészet - szemantika, Nyelvtudomány |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/1151 |
| Summary: | This paper gives a summaryofthe changes and development that took place in the last 20 years concerning the theory of two-level semantics (cf. Bierwisch 1983). Two-level semantics is a modulárist cognitive semantic theory. Its main idea is that the semantic representations of words are radically underspecified. When interpreting an utterance, first its underspecified semantic representation is constructed based on the semantic representations of words and its syntactic structure, which is later modified by the conceptual system providing the conceptual representation of the utterance that contains specified word meanings. Conceptual shift plays an important role in this system determining the concept the noun expresses in a specific sentence. The present paper pays special attention to the treatment of nominal ambiguities and the conceptual shift on the basis of related works discussing or using the system of two-level semantics (Bibok 1994, 2003; Dolling 1992, 1994, 2000; Kiefer 2000 and Pethő 1998, 2001). While in the original system of Bierwisch (1983) word-meanings were always specified in one step, now there is also an alternative solution that derives a specified word meaning not from the underspecified semantic representation, but from an already specified conceptual representation by using metonymic shift. Another change in the theory is also connected to metonymy. While in the case of conceptual shift the word meaning is shifted to a concept already associated with the word, metonymic shift does not indicate such a preliminary connection between the initial and final meaning. For instance, Johannes Dolling (1992) gives an answer to the question how a meaning derived by metonymic shift is related to the initial meaning. He uses a predefined ontological category grid and sort coercion (type coercion) operations to treat metonymic extensions as sort coercion in a formal system. As a conclusion, the theory of two-level semantics has become more efficient by the use of multiple stage meaning derivation, that is, combination of conceptual and metonymic shift, and, on the other hand, this theory can formalize metonymy by connecting it to the tool of sort coercion in a more elegant way. |
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| Physical Description: | 203-218 |
| ISSN: | 1786-7428 |